Deborah O’Callaghan is the Associate Director of the NICE Field Team in the Midlands and East. Working across health, public health and social care, her role is to provide advice and support in the use of NICE guidance and Quality Standards to achieve high quality care and improvement in health and wellbeing.

Deborah is also the Sector Lead for Public Health and leading a programme to ensure that NICE provides the best support to enable the health and care system to have an impact on health inequalities.

Prior to working at NICE, Deborah held a variety of strategy, redesign and quality improvement roles within the NHS. More recent posts include Associate Director of Strategic Development in a London CCG and Director of a London Cardiac Network.